Can this board set the mission and policies that will stick? They have 10 months as temporary appointees. Or will their work be wiped out, swept away by successors, since each of their five seats will be on the November 2025 ballot?
Two days ago, @realDonaldTrump posted a glorification of ICE activities in Los Angeles. I analyze the writing to look for the real Donald Trump and what he is really saying to us as he advocates for an expansion of deportation.
Whitehead is saving the people a lot of money by critically evaluating capital projects and just in time. Over the past 10 years capital projects have burgeoned from less than $2 million a year to $73 million this year due to long neglect of city infrastructure.
Next year's ICIP process will be better, since new City Manager Gary Whitehead is making city doings a thousand times more transparent. This year's process was the same kabuki theater.
This article is a long comment on Kathleen Sloan's analysis, "New Mexico Copper Corporation will still use a lot of water" (https://sierracountycitizen.org/new-mexico-copper-corporation-will-still-use-a-lot-of-water/).
270 jobs for maybe 20 years if copper prices don't fall in exchange for a polluted site for 100 or more years that will repel tourists and recreation seekers? Sounds like a trade-off a desperate third-world country would make.
Our president's Big Beautiful Bill hides a small passage which makes contempt of court decisions of federal courts completely meaningless. To explain the importance of this new rule, I go back to my earlier discussion of justice and focus on the type of justice called "equity." It's a big deal.
The usual passivity from T or C city commissioners when the electric department director reported the solar farm hasn't operated for two years. We're just hearing about it now? Cancel the stupid contract for nonperformance while you can!
How many voters understood they were raising taxes when they approved the new flood control taxing district on the November 2024 ballot? How many voters understood there was already a 1.50 mill levy for flood control?
Yesterday, Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, reported that two Israeli soldiers were killed in Gaza. That makes eight soldiers killed in the last two months. I try to think about what that means, especially since now that the military situation in Gaza gets less and less coverage in the media.
Riverbend's glacial slow-walk as a legal strategy paid off, scrapping off all but one protestant. It has cornered the market on commercial hot springs, maybe to the detriment of the whole system, with the city and Office of the State Engineer looking away.
The past winter was not kind to us, and we are faced with water shortage in the Rio Grande this summer. I link to several descriptions of where we are and what is predicted. Impacts will be important for farmers, ranchers, recreational businesses. We might get sued again by Texas.